Map of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, as well as Nebraska and Kansas Territories, showing railroad routes from Chicago, Saint Louis, and other towns to the Missouri River, past which various roads heading to the Rocky Mountain gold mines are shown. A table lists distances to Fort St. Vrain, a town at the eastern edge of the gold region, in Nebraska Territory.
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